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There should be a way to know when sql server was restarted and by who ? If it was a server restart, who restarted the server, if it was sql service restart , who restarted the sql service etc. Right now we have ways to know when sql was restarted, but how to find who did it or how it was restarted ?

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Thanks for your feedback. Unfortunately, this is not really something that we can address in SQL Server as OS does not inform the service who has started/stopped it. As such, this is something that would need to be address through Windows logging instead.